7 Times Rock Bands Were Sued By Album Cover Models

One of the largest controversies in rock music this yr has been the lawsuit in opposition to Nirvana by Spencer Elden, who’s depicted as a child on the quilt of the band’s 1991 album Nevermind. But, this is not the primary time a band has discovered themselves in one of these scenario.

There have really been a ton of lawsuits in opposition to bands over album art work all through musical historical past, however for the sake of maintaining issues associated to the case of Nirvana and Elden, we’re specializing in those that had been filed in opposition to bands by the individuals, or fashions, who’re really featured on the covers.

Perhaps some of the well-known examples is The Rolling Stones’ 1978 album Some Girls, which marked their transition towards disco and funk rock, and likewise initially had some very well-known faces on the quilt along with the band members. The group of girls and their members of the family sued the Stones, who in the end determined to place out a unique model of the quilt with solely the musicians’ faces as a substitute.

“On the original album there were old-fashioned film stars, but because we were stupid and never got permission from them, we got stopped a lot from using them,” Mick Jagger later instructed Yahoo! of the art work.

That’s a scenario the place the band did not really ask permission to make use of the pictures, which is similar for a number of others on our listing as properly. However, Elden’s case is exclusive in that his mother and father had been those who gave the band consent to make use of his photograph on Nevermind, as he was solely a child through the photoshoot.

However, he has celebrated the album cowl in recent times, so a number of eyebrows had been raised when the information broke that he was now claiming that the photograph is baby pornography. Especially as a result of, as Dave Grohl identified, he has a Nevermind tattoo.

To discover out extra about different comparable circumstances, scroll by way of our gallery under.